Delete third party KEXT files

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Delete third party KEXT files

I have third party .kext files in my /Library/Extensions/StagedExtensions/Library/Extensions/ folder that I want to remove. (I didn't even know I had a StagedExtensions folder until today)

They are locked and the seagate ones (HighPointIOP.kext, HighPointRR.kext, SeagateDiskService.kext and SoftRAID.kext installed by the LaCie Toolkit) are causing long boot ups and error messages in the logs and verbose boots. I am on an iMac 2020 with Monterey 12.7.5

I have tried CMD delete, Shift Delete, CMD-I and change permissions.

Any solution please?

Posted on May 19, 2024 6:00 PM

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MrHoffman

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May 19, 2024 6:08 PM in response to AspirationI

Per Apple: Unloading a kext on macOS 11 and later requires a call to kmutil or kextunload, followed by a system reboot. The kmutil tool builds a new kext collection without the specified kext, but it doesn’t install that collection immediately. The system installs the new kext collection only after the computer reboots. As a result, the unloaded kext actually remains active and running until the user reboots the system.

For more details, see the kmutil(8) man page.

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